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It's a little of both. He likes to do laundry everyday, I think it can wait until once a week. He also isn't very good at laundry and will someone get stains on things after they are clean! So, I end up washing my important items separately, but will put jeans, sweats in with his.

Separate because Hubs likes to do his own laundry.

I wash it all together.

Combined. The only time I will separate is if I'm bleaching his white tees and undies.

Separate. I like doing laundry. Before LO I used to do loads by color (all my reds, all my purples, blues & greens). I'm a tad bit obsessive when it comes to laundry. I also used to not let anyone else touch the machines. I had to after LO was born cause I couldn't climb the stairs.

Combined. We have just toss everything in the same hamper in our room anyway. I've been taking the lead on it lately because he's spending long hours studying, but we go back and forth. He's even gotten pretty good about remembering which of my stuff doesn't go in the dryer. I definitely separate a little more carefully than him but neither of us are all that fussy about it.

Combined. We put all our clothes in one hamper.

I voted separate, but we wash together maybe...10% of the time. I think for DH and me it's just more convenient to do it seperately.

1)We were 32 before we married, so we'd been taking care of ourselves for a long time and DH is used to doing his own.

2)DH washes really often because he probably only has...5 work outfits, so he's constantly laundering and ironing them. I have a ton of clothes, so I could go 3 weeks without washing if I wanted.

3) I don't want it to end up being a chore that I as the wife am supposed to do, so I don't want to ruin what we have going on. =) I have too many married friends who do all the laundry and then have to nag their husbands to get him to just put away his own stuff. I'm not doing that. Ever.

4) DH dries everything in the dryer, whereas at least half my stuff has to be hung to dry, and I don't expect him to remember which things I don't like dried. He dried some of my stretch maternity pants on high heat and they were SO TIGHT after. =(

We also have only 1 laundry hamper, but we just pick out our own stuff when we go to do a load.

Separate. Honestly, I hate doing laundry so I don't want to do any more than I have to! And I don't trust DH to do mine without shrinking anything, haha.

I do all the laundry, his mine and ours. If it were up to DH he'd be putting whites in with darks, and towels in with clothes. That drives me nuts.

Although a few years ago, I remember I had an ex (who I lived with) that for some reason didn't like the way I did his laundry. So I said "Fine do you OWN!" and I only did mine. Hence....why he is an EX!

We wash our laundry together unless he's been out at the farm then I was those clothes separately.

Definitely separate.

We each do our own laundry. In addition I have a lot of items that cannot be dried so its just easier this way. I never do DH's laundry. Ever.

@Anagram: this. Agree with every point. Except I married young- but we both grew up in households where we were responsible for our own laundry.

@Freckles: for us, it's not a waste because our washer has settings for different size loads. We both usually have totally full loads, but if there's something I want to wash seperately, I just do a "small" load.

This is something that drives me a little crazy, because when I do laundry I do it all together, but when DH does it he just does his...grrr!

I do it all so I combine them. Last time DH did laundry all our whites turned blue

We have separate hampers, so we usually wash separate too. We're not opposed to combining them, it just usually works better this way.

DH likes to do his own because he thinks I don't do his correctly. Plus he will do it weekly. I hate laundry and don't do it until I really have to. We both do LO's when needed.

I wash the whole family together.

All of our laundry is combined and my SO does it 90% of the time.